The Joy of Penguins : Linux System Administration

Linux System Administration

NFS - Network File System

Setting up an NFS server

Suppose we have two client machines, slave1 and slave2, that have IP addresses 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2, respectively.
We wish to share our software binaries and home directories with these machines. A typical setup for /etc/exports might look like this:

		  /usr/local   192.168.0.1(ro) 192.168.0.2(ro)
		  /home        192.168.0.1(rw) 192.168.0.2(rw)

Here we are sharing /usr/local read-only to slave1 and slave2, because it probably contains our software and there may not be benefits to allowing slave1 and slave2 to write to it that outweigh security concerns.
On the other hand, home directories need to be exported read-write if users are to save work on them.

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